Faith Childs: Five Book Briefs
April 30, 2009 by Faith Childs

When I am very busy, I read voraciously. Lately I’ve been devouring books. Lucky for me that each one was a complete pleasure, worth the effort. Many of the books [...]
Read More »Flu Monitoring News, Part Two: Chan Raises Alert, Newly-Confirmed Sebelius Instantly Busy
April 29, 2009 by Chris Lombardi

WHO Director Margaret Chan’s voice was steady and quiet this afternoon. as she said some fearful words: “I have decided to raise the level of influenza pandemic alert from Phase [...]
Read More »Spring Depression : The Bluebird of Happiness Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
April 29, 2009 by Dr. Cecilia Ford

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which causes some people to grow depressed during winter months because of the shorter hours of daylight, is a well-known phenomenon. Sufferers can be treated with [...]
Read More »Gwen Mazer: Musings on Shoes
April 28, 2009 by Gwen Mazer

Having spent much of my career in the world of fashion as an editor and journalist for Harper’s Bazaar, owner of an accessory boutique and as a personal style consultant [...]
Read More »Women’s Leadership News, from Iceland to the Catholic Church
April 27, 2009 by Chris Lombardi

This weekend, between swine flu, the revelations about torture memos by former officials, and the football draft, lurked two more stories about women stepping in and stepping up. In Iceland, [...]
Read More »The Empty Suitcase: A Journey Into the Peace Corps
April 27, 2009 by Alice Pettway

Trading a carob energy bar for your best friend’s onion rings isn’t an easy task at seven. Neither is explaining why you don’t have cable or air conditioning at your [...]
Read More »Women Monitoring the Emerging Swine Flu Crisis
April 27, 2009 by Patricia Yarberry Allen

The weekend news has been full of alarming statistics about a new Swine flu, Influenza A H1N1, that has affected almost 1500 people in 3 states in Mexico and is [...]
Read More »Katherine McNamara: “It’s about moving into the unoccupied spaces”
April 27, 2009 by Chris Lombardi

Katherine McNamara started crashing people’s expectations early – peeling off to Paris in the middle of a Cornell history Ph.D. and learning she was a poet, striking out for Alaska [...]
Read More »“The Soloist” Brings Memories of A Locked Ward in 1968
April 25, 2009 by Patricia Yarberry Allen

It was 1968. The war in Vietnam was raging, the Beatles were making music for everyone to make love to, and my college peers were smoking pot, dropping acid and [...]
Read More »Poetry Friday: Maria Luisa Arroyo
April 23, 2009 by Women's Voices For Change

Academically trained in German language and literature at Colby (BA), Tufts (MA), and Harvard (ABD), Maria Luisa Arroyo is an educator, a single parent, a 2004 Massachusetts Cultural [...]
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